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Originally posted by Captain
I don't believe there is ever a state of purity. Are you suggesting adopting the 1913 tax code simply because it was the first? Or do you prefer the 1861 or 1892 versions? If we adopt those codes, sould we also reinstate the excise taxes from which government derived most of its revenues at the time?
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I'm suggesting that the tax code be structured to do that one thing for which it truly exists - to raise revenue in an efficient and fair manner. Considerations such as "we need to encourage home ownership", or "let's get folks to buy ethanol cars" don't belong in that arena. So, no, there's no absolute purity, but we can get a lot closer to that end of the scale.
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Under the 1913 Code, approximately 1% of the population paid income taxes. Let's just use that code, and raise the rate sufficiently to create the income we need.
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Gooooo, Flat Tax!
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With respect to reading the plain language in the constitution, all I want to know is what it means to say that "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." That says that absolutely no law can be made by Congress, period, limiting what I say?
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Yep.
Now, if we have problems with that, and decide that we want to limit it a bit - amend. But to simply say that we're going to "read" these exceptions into the C that aren't there - well, might as well not have a C.
